Florida Museums

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avnue, Jacksonville FL 32204
The museum occupies the site of founders Arthur and Ninah Cummer's home; its permanent collection, begun by Ninah Cummer, now contains an impressive array of over 5,000 pieces of decorative art and fine arts dating from 2000 BC. Of particular interest is a collection of early 18th-century Meissen porcelain tableware and the Eugène Louis Charvot Collection of 19th-century prints and paintings. Changing exhibitions complement the Cummer collection. Three acres of formal gardens include English and Italian-style plantings which extend from the museum to the St John's River. The museum campus also includes the award-winning Art Connections, an Art Education Center, featuring an interactive teaching gallery, summer camp, and other activities. Group and school tours available; museum store on site.

Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens
633 Osceola Avenue, Winter Park, FL 327989 - Tel: 407 647 6294
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens offers a unique opportunity to view the works and private collection of internationally known Czech-American sculptor, Albin Polasek and to encourage study, appreciation, and the furtherance of representational art. The Polasek Museum and Sculpture Garden was Mr. Polasek's home, and studio for the last fifteen years of his life. The museum contains much of his art as well as other pieces that he collected in two galleries, a chapel and three acres of gardens overlooking Lake Osceola.

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens features expansive galleries where varying exhibitions of Japanese arts, crafts and artifacts are displayed. It also contains the Seishin-an teahouse with regularly scheduled demonstrations of the Japanese tea ceremony, a 225 seat theater offering lectures and performing arts, the IBM Infotronic Gallery multimedia resource center and the Cornell Cafe serving Japanese and Asian lunches.

Harry P. Leu Gardens & House Museum
1920 North Forest Avenue, Orlando. FL 32803 - Tel: 407 246 2620
To become an exemplary botanical garden of historic significance. To further its mission, Leu Gardens educates through the creation and maintenance of plant collections, and through gathering and dissemination of horticultural information and fosters the enjoyment of the beauty of plants through a variety of displays and activities in a preserved, natural setting.